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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
Discus | |
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A live Discus rotundatus | |
A live Discus catskillensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Discidae |
Genus: | Discus Fitzinger, 1833[1] |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America.[3] The former subgenus Canaridiscus from the Canary Islands off North Africa, which was previously allocated to Atlantica, is now raised to a full genus.
Discus species have small or medium shells with ribs.[3] The umbilicus is wide.[3]
Species in this genus include:
subgenus Discus Fitzinger, 1833
subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger, 1833
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